Sextius Alexandre François de Miollis

Sextius Alexandre François de Miollis (18 September 1759-18 June 1828) was a Lieutenant-General of the French Army who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Sextius Alexandre François de Miollis was born in Aix, Provence, France on 18 September 1759, the brother of the Bishop of Digne, Bienvenu de Miollis. He entered the Soissonais infantry regiment of the French Army at the age of 17, and he served as a sub-lieutenant under General Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. Miollis returned to France as a captain, and he became a volunteer battalion commander during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1796, and he served under Napoleon Bonaparte in his Italian Campaign, taking part in his capture of Mantua and occupying Tuscany after the signing of the Treaty of Campo Formio. Under Andre Massena, he took part in the 1799 defense of Genoa, and he became Governor of Mantua in 1806, honoring the great Roman poet Virgil with a monument. On 3 February 1808, his division occupied Rome after relations between the First French Empire and the Papal States broke down, and the puppet Kingdom of Italy annexed Ancona, Macerata, Fermo, and Urbino from the Papal States. He governed the Papal States until Napoleon's abdication in 1814, and Miollis served at Metz after rallying to Napoleon's cause during the Hundred Days in 1815. Miollis died in 1828, and his name was inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.